I’m trying to create a blog post using Single Author, small preview. I’ve added a featured image, but the image itself shows up in a grey box in the upper right. It looks terrible. Any way to fix this?

@TechShad – thanks, I discovered the same thing as well. I agree with you, I wish there was a smaller (81px) “featured image” in the blog posts as well (and that it doesn’t have a grey background with an oddly aligned image for smaller images – looks broken).

You can install the http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-image-sizes/ plugin, which will allow you to modify the default expected image sizes for various locations throughout the theme, as well as whether to crop or not .. located in Settings > Media. Just remember that changing the settings does not affect the images already there (you will need to regenerate images, located on same page lower).. but it will affect all new uploads. If you run into problems , it may be easier to re-upload the image since if your wordpress doesn’t have enough memory, regenerate will not work.

Since there is no example, I will assume you mean the background of a jpg, png image, and not background color of the website. You would need to use an image editor , such as Photoshop to edit an actual image. As to what commands to use in Photoshop to do that, you would need to consult a tutorial online, there are thousands of them written by Photoshop gurus. Have I understood your request correctly?

Here is the css. Please add it to /css/custom.css or to Quick CSS located in Enfold > Layout .. on bottom of the page. … there is an outline which is not seen, i left it as grey, though you can change it whichever way you want in this css